Re: BUG: Apache/Stronghold and Linux 2.0.X

DUPRE Christophe (duprec@JSP.UMontreal.CA)
Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:27:19 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Ruslan V. Brushkoff wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, DUPRE Christophe wrote:
>
> > Here's my primary server:
> > Pentium 133, with Intel 430FX
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > And my development workstation:
> > PentiumPRO 200
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> May be this is the problem ;)

Yes, a race condition could be triggered by the difference in speed.

> I've noticed the same problem whith Apache 1.2b4 when running the same
> software configuration on different boxes, differs only by processor
> power. But the most powerfull machine didn't work for me.
> One *important* detail - the servers were running through inetd.
> The inetd man page says that default number of launched servers is 40 per
> minute. After increasing number of requests in inetd.conf [nowait.NN] all
> became working again. May be this helps.

The web server is not launched by inetd, it's standalone.

Christophe Dupre Universite de Montreal
Montreal, Qc, Canada
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